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    Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus

    Symposium: Apollodorus

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    [190b] swiftly round and round. The number and features of these three sexes were owing to the fact that the male was originally the offspring of the sun, and the female of the earth; while that which partook of both sexes was born of the moon, for the moon also partakes of both.1 They were globular in their shape as in their progress, since they took after their parents. Now, they were of surprising strength and vigor, and so lofty in their notions that they even conspired against the gods; and the same story is told of them as Homer relates of

    1 The double sex of the moon is mentioned in an Orphic hymn (ix. 4): cf. Macrob. iii. 8.

    There are a total of 5 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
    section 190b: hoti to men arren
    section 190b: hoti...metechei
    section 190b: peripherê
    section 190b: ta phronêmata megala eichon
    section 190b: ho legei Homêros

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    629 [Predicative position in phrases that have to do with the person. ]
    633 [Second Position:]

    Cross references from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
    * [Commentary]
    * [Commentary]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.
    OCLC: 20083931, 19433521, 377367, 21777623
    ISBN: 0674990404, 0674991842, 0674991850, 0674991826

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